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Three passengers who were not robbed said they; merely told the gunmen they had no money. MANNING SAID one passenger scribbled a note calling for help and dropped it from the moving bus as the robbery was in progress, but it was lost In the stream of 65-mile-per-hour traffic. The company executive said eight of the buses leave the Baltimore area daily for the Delaware race track between 10:30 a.m. and noon. 1 way and drive completely around the city while the gunmen went from passenger to passenger, taking valuables.

FORTY-THREE of the 46 passengers told police they had been robbed. None was harmed. George Dotson, the driver, said the bandits ordered him to stop the bus at the interchange and that both fled on foot over an embankment and across the busy highway. No getaway car was seen. THOMAS M.

MANNING, manager of the Balti-. more Motor Coach said the bus carried 46 passengers and was en route to Delaware Park Race Course at Stanton, Del. Manning said the gunmen, who had boarded the bus at the downtown Baltimore Civic Center at about 11 a.m., pulled guns on the' driver as the bus neared the Baltimore Beltway on Pulaski Highway, north of the city. He said the driver was forced to enter the Belt BALTIMORE III Two armed men commandeered a busload of racetrack fans Monday and forced the driver to circle the city while they robbed the passengers. The two men, one armed with a shotgun, fled with $3,413 an hour later at the Baltimore Beltway interchange with Route 95 in Halethorpe, a small suburban community 10 miles south of here, police 'said.

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Set To On Ddby Briton WASHINGTON (UPI) 'A federal judge Monday upheld a decision by the Democratic credentials committee that stripped Sen. George S. McGovern of South Dakota of 153 convention votes in the big California convention delegation. In addition, U.S. District Judge George L.

Hart Jr. sustained the committee's order unseating Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley and 58 of his followers from the Illinois convention delegation. THE LOSING attorneys in each case said they will appeal. The judge had announced before ruling that the U.S.

Court of Appeals in Washington had arranged to hear further arguments t()day no matter what his decisions were. In declining t6 Hart said the question of whether the state's winner-take-all primary was fair and equitable Is mat-J ter to be decided by the party convention, hot by the courts. He said the judiciary should intervene In party conflicts only when they involye a clear constitutional principle." HART ALSO rejected the Democratic National Committee's request for a counter injunction against an Illinois state court, which Is to rule Wednesday on a Daley request for an order barring the convention from seating the anti-Daley challengers as directed by the credentials committee. Irons Strike While Money Is Soaked A hungry laundress banks on ironing bundles to make money, but this may be the first time a bank Ironed money to make bundles. Floor water invading the Loyal Plaza Branch of the Williamsport Bank in Wil-liamsport, recently soaked about $200,000.

Loyal employes rising to the moment, brought out their Irons and boards to set things straight SAIGON North Vietnamese troops continued to shell Hue and attacked the city's northwestern defenses on Monday as South Vietnamese marines and paratroopers pressed north toward the enemy-held city of Quang Tri. On the northern front Communist forces reportedly were Hue I Hikes 7 jriw" i mmm in ill Pll lllilliniw iMitf Under Heavy Bombardment H20 Short? Brewer Hops To Rescue ORANGE, N.J. (UPI) -The Rheingold brewery announced Monday that It will be turning out six-packs of water instead of beer, In a volunteer effort to aid victims of flooding in Pennsylvania, where water supplies were tainted. The operation, to produce about 100,000 cans of water, should take about three hours, a spokesman for the firm said. The beer-filling equipment must be shut down, valves, regulated to the different weight of, the liquids and pipes sterilised.

The steel cans, contributed by a can company were made Into six-pack with, a regular plastic car-eying cover tor easy distribution, i. 130mm artillery; and mortar a communique said. They, followed with a ground attack that was repulsed with five North Vietnamese killed and government losses of one dead and four, wounded. Army engineers completed work Monday on a pontoon bridge across the last river that had been without a span between the former My Chanh defense line and the City of Quang Tri. Most of the bridg-es in the area had been destroyed by allied air strikes after the province fell but were quickly rebuilt to support the government counteroffensive.

Paratroopers -and supporting armored personnel carriers (APCS) north o( the river encountered sporadic enemy artillery fire but resistance was considered light Just' before the bridge was completed three APCs attempted to cross the river, but one stalled and sank in midstream, Jensen reported. Seven soldiers loaded with combat gear drowned. IN THE air war over North Vietnam, American planes pounded the Uong.Bi power plant 10 miles northeast of Haiphong for the second time in less than six weeks. The U.S. Command said the facility was heavily damaged.

In a delayed report, the command said a U.S. -Navy A7 was lost over North Viet- (See THE WAR, 15-A) Attorneys for both unseated groups asked Hart to issue an injunction blocking their expulsion. McGovern, front-runner for the nomination but still shy of the 1,509 votes needed for victory, had a major stake in the two cases. In. addition to the 153 dele-.

gates stripped from him in California, 41 of those who re- placed uncommitted Daley supporters in the Chicago delegation were pledged to Mc-' Govern's cause. It marked the second time the Chicago Issue was before Hart. Prior to the credentials committee vote in favor of the challengers, he ruled last week in Daley's favor on grounds the party could not require the voting public to comply with a quota in choos- (See CREDENTIALS, 15-A) Plat Timti Wirt Strvict NEW YORK "It's a stupendous offer! I gotta accept it." That is how chess star Bobby Fischer is reported by his law-: yer to have reacted to $130,000 offered by a British banker if Fischer would show up in Iceland and play Boris Spassky in a world championship match. THE LAWYER, Paul Marshall, said Fischer planned to leave New York for Reykyavik, Iceland, Monday night. The first scheduled match is today.

The offer of 50,000 pounds or $130,000 at official parity came from James D. Slater in i ilMf Hi for the northern region. Twelve persons were reported killed in the Sunday's attack, the first shelling of the city since the enemy offensive began March 30. ENEMY GUNNERS pounfr ed a base camp Monday on the northwestern approach to Hue with about 500 rounds of GM Calls For Check Of Vegas Recall gap, l-D DETROIT (UPI) General Motors Monday asked owners of virtually every Chevrolet Vega on the road to return them to dealers to check a defective axle shaft that could cause rear brake failure and the axle itself to fall off It was the third major recall of Vegas in the last three months and affected 500,000 of the subcompact cars nearly every one built in the 1971 and 1972 model years. ALL VEGAS built since the car was introduced are affected by at least two recall campaigns and many owners are involved in all three.

The Vega, constructed at (See VEGAS, 11-A) falling back from the govern-, ment counteroffensive and were attempting to flee in small groups to avoid intensive allied air strikes. NORTH VIETNAMESE ar-tlllerymen blasted Hue for the second straight day and more than 30 122mm artillery shells crashed into the former impe Mormon Smith Dies Tlmt Wirt Strvlcti SALT LAKE QTY Joseph Fielding Smith, who died here Sunday night at the age of 95, was the spiritual leader of the world's 3-million Mormons. He assumed the presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints two years ago last January, when he was 93 years old. But his Mormon lineage went back to the founder of the church, the prophet Joseph Smith. Mormonism teaches that God's will is made known through the head of the church, who is referred to as "prophet, seer and revela-tor." For Joseph Fielding Smith, the honor that came to him in the final years of his Leade rial capital.

A i 1 i a spokesman said one boy was wounded and four houses were damaged in the daylight attacks. At least 101 shells have hit the city during the two-day barrage. Most were directed at the Citadel, wich serves as the military command post JOSEPH FIELDING SMITH seer and revelator.y life was a fitting one; he had been active in church affairs from boyhood, and had been a Mormon apostle for more than 60 years. SMITH'S GRANDFATHER, Hyrum was the brother of Joseph Smith, who founded the church in New (See SMITH, 11-A) Ann Landers Bridge Business Classified Comics Crosswords DAY Section 3-D 8- 9- 1 i Monday morning. Slater put up his own funds because he 7wanted to solve Fischer's reported money questions and get the match under way.

"What I'm saying to Fischer now is, 5 'Come out and Slater said in making the offer. MARSHALL said he called Fischer as soon as he got word of the offer at 8 a.m., New York time, and it took Fischer about six hours to decide, calling Marshall back with his acceptance at about 2 p.m.: "Fischer thought the offer was incredible and generous and brave," said Marshall. "His only negative comment was that he felt the English were assuming the Icelandic responsibility." Fischer accepted after previously requesting and receiving a two-day postponement of the match. WHY DID Fischer accept? "The offer was couched in a way he couldn't refuse. It said, 'If he isn't afraid of Spassky, then Jim Slater, have removed the element of said Marshall.

"So Bobby felt he had to accept. His pride he couldn't go down as a coward." Slater, chairman of Slater (See CHESS, 15-A) Editorial 22-A People A Entertainment 7-D Personalities S-D 6-C Financial 7-11-C Pulse of Pinellas 9-B 12-24-C Horoscope 9-D Radio-TV 10-D Jumble 7-D Sketches 6-D 8-D Obituaries 8-B Sports 1-5-C 1-6-D Outdoors 4-C Weather 2-A IllSlDE today TlmM Art.

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